Yes, you still need old-school NLP skills in "the age of ChatGPT"

Large Language Models have their strengths, but for many production problems, simpler techniques are faster, cheaper, and just as effective.

Feb 02, 2024

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A meme with two badly drawn cartoon faces. The first one is crying and has the caption: "I just need to do some tokenization, case normalisation, stopword removal, lemmatising and POS tagging, and then I can extract features to train my entity recognizer." The second figure looks happier, and has a caption "hahaha ChatGPT go brrrr" — How it feels being an “old-school” computational linguist in 2024. Source: me and my pain.

In which I try not to sound like an old has-been (and end up doing exactly that)

Back when I started studying a masters of Computational Linguistics, no-one I knew of had even the faintest idea what Natural Language Processing (NLP) was. Not even me.1 But I quickly r…

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